Ahhhhhh, yes. My offspring is 20. All morning conversations with her sound very much like that, but with snarling on her part. I hear they eventually become Human again. Of course, my friends might be lying to me.

This is why my father recommended the "bung-hole" method of raising children. It works like this: When a child is born you place it in a barrel and feed it through the bung-hole. On the child's thirteenth birthday you plug up the bung-hole. This saves a great deal of wear and tear on the parents.

One piece of wisdom my mother passed on to me was this: "One day your children will grow up and leave home. Then your problems will really start." Silly me, I didn't believe her then but, oh I do now...

I recieved the same advice from my ex-mother in law. I was willing to follow her advice, however my ex was horrified by this. When she decided to leave I ended up raising the boy, until I met my second wife.

Jim

I was not being sarcastic, well not much, simply trying to pass on hard earned knowledge from one former NCO to another. You will have four years of relief during college, you will want them far away, although probably not as far away as they want to be.

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Jim Wright is a retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and freelance writer. He lived longer in Alaska than anywhere else and misses it terribly. He recently moved to the fetid Panhandle of Florida and lives now in an ancient Cold War bunker of a house surrounded by alligators and rednecks. He's been called the Tool of Satan, but he prefers to think of himself as the Devil's Designated Driver. He is the mind behind Stonekettle Station. You can email him at jim@stonekettle.com. You can follow him on Twitter @stonekettle, or you can join the boisterous bunch he hosts on Facebook at Facebook/Stonekettle. Remember to bring brownies and mind the white cat, he bites. Hard.

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